嘡 · tāng
onomatopoeic: clang, bang
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
onomatopoeic: clang, bang
- Mandarin
- tāng
- Cantonese
- tong1
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+5621
- Radical
- 口 · 30
- Strokes
- 14 · Unihan
- Residual
- 11
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 嘡
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- tāng
- kCantonese
- tong1
- kDefinition
- onomatopoeic: clang, bang
- kTotalStrokes
- 14
- kRSUnicode
- 30.11
- kTGH
- 2013:5716
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- tāng 10676.030
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- tāng 1117.050
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- tāng 359.110
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- tāng粵tong1